How does this famous image touch on our emphasis on God’s providence and governance? What does it say aobut god’s plan that os many regard as control?What doe sit say about the responsive God?
1) I have long been interested in this metaphor, as God is protrayed as an artisan.
2) As in Is. 5,. God seems surprised that the work is not coming out as planned and needs reworked, just as the potter has to reshape a product.
3) Our youngest daughter has done ceramics, and it is not easy. One could use different elements of it, shaping firing, glazing to talk about different pieces of the life cycle or different parts of the human personality, or social life.
4) Let’s be clear, reworking still uses the clay. It is not a far step from us being made of potting soil to the clay of a potter’s work. the possibility of change is clear as usual.
5) How does the image of God as artisan affect your view of the persoan and work of God?
6) I don;t like the passivbity of the clay image. Put differently we pariticpate in our working and reworking; we are not mere objects of work but beings with degrees of freedom.
7) One could go a long way in comparing the cracked cisterns of our sole work and theis image of pottery. One copuld easily move to Paul’s idea of us being mere earthen vessels.
8) What do our pots of life hold and what gets poured out?
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